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This week we're baking under superb sunshine in the beautiful, expansive grounds of the Faenol Estate in Bangor, at the 5th Gwyl Gardd Goll festival. BBC Radio (us & the wonderful people at C2) recorded all of the bands on the Y Nyth stage on the Saturday, and I get to treat you to excellent sets from Creision Hud and Vvolves.
This e-mail is five days tardy because it took me a while to recuperate from the festival... my two days there are detailed elsewhere on this blog (Saturday and Sunday). There are a lot of words, quite a few pictures, and some mumbling about feeling "existentially adrift"... that sensation has passed now. I put it down to too much bad news, sunshine and too many hours hypnotised by the white lines on the A55.
Elsewhere on the show: Huw Williams introduces us to Joey and the Gentlemen (1964). Ben Hayes makes a stirring (& almost convincing) case for the non-naffness of Electric Light Orchestra and Lara Catrin translates something jangly and ace (about beer goggles) from Pretty Places.
There are only a couple of debut plays on this week's show (Dev79 & Thrills, The Toy Band, Doom Reggae & Xentrix - so, if you're new/you're ace/you've never been played on the radio before, & you're Welsh/based in Wales or on a Welsh label, please throw your music at me (or recommendations of ace bands you've seen) via: themysterytour@gmail.com (mp3s/download links) or by visiting the BBC Introducing Uploader.
Longwinded, but sound, advice on submitting music to the show is available here:
- Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #1
- Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #2
- Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #3
- Submitting Music to the Show Dos & Don'ts #4
I'm off to make a panad.
This Sunday will feature a preview of the imminent National Eisteddfod in Wrexham. I'm DJing Maes B on Saturday night (30th) & judging a battle of the bands at the same venue on Monday & Tuesday night. See you there. Or, more appropriately, wela i di yna!
Hwyl,
Adam
IFAN DAFYDD - 'No Good ( 12" Version )'
Llanrug
JEN JENIRO - 'Take Your Time'
Llanrwst
SIBRYDION - 'Uwchben Y Drefn'
Waunfawr/Cardiff
JON LANGFORD & SKULL ORCHARD - 'Tubby Brothers ( Featuring The Burlington Welsh Male Voice Chorus )'
Newport
POKET TREZ - 'Ffati Bwm Bwm ( Featuring Swci And Mr Phormula )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
DEV79 & THRILLS - 'Off In A Minute ( Featuring Skamma )'
Philadelphia/Barry
EVM (EVERMEAN) - 'Fallin''
Mold
JONNY - 'English Lady'
Pembrokeshire
GRUFF RHYS - 'Christopher Columbus'
Bethesda
SOPHIE MADELEINE - 'Candylion'
Brighton
VVOLVES - 'Sailing From Youth ( Live From Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Monmouth/Cardiff
VVOLVES - 'She ( Live From Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Monmouth/Cardiff
VVOLVES - 'Where You'd Start ( Live From Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Monmouth/Cardiff
VVOLVES - 'Wolves ( Live From Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Monmouth/Cardiff
LA DECADANSE FEATURING GWENNO - 'Pretty Pretty'
Brighton/Cardiff
SOFT-HEARTED SCIENTISTS - 'Pushing Up Daisies'
Cardiff
UNDERPASS - 'The Bends'
Cardiff
SOPHIE BALLAMY - 'Wolf - Mother'
Llangollen
TOY BAND, THE - 'Tough Tough Love'
Cardiff
HUW WILLIAMS - 'Spoken Contribution'
Swansea
JOEY & THE GENTLEMEN - 'Dummy Dum Song'
Cardiff
HOLY COVES - 'All Around You'
Holyhead
HUW HAUL - 'Joanna'
Llanbrynmair/Clynnog Fawr
SAM AIREY - 'The Blackout ( Radio Edit )'
Anglesey
DOOM REGGAE - 'Funeral Reggae'
Llanfairfechan
XENTRIX - 'Here We Go Again'
Lampeter
CREISION HUD - 'Cyllell ( Live At Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
CREISION HUD - 'Indigo ( Live At Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
CREISION HUD - 'Dianc ( Live At Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
CREISION HUD - 'Katrina ( Live At Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
CREISION HUD - 'Bedd ( Live At Gwyl Gardd Goll )'
Caernarfon/Cardiff
JOANNA GRUESOME - 'Sugarcrush'
Cardiff
SATURDAY'S KIDS - 'Grey On White'
Cardiff
DEAD RAILS, THE - 'Prove Yr Love'
Swansea/Berlin
GIRLS - 'Vomit'
San Francisco ( Welsh Management )
ROSEVILLE BAND, THE - 'Sister Silvia'
Wrexham/Brynford
LARA CATRIN - 'Spoken Contribution'
Bangor/Cardiff
PRETTY PLACES - 'Dyn, Dynes A Cerddoriaeth'
Llanfair P.g.
WINTER VILLAINS - 'Thorns'
Cardiff
BEN HAYES - 'Spoken Contribution'
Ruthin
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - 'First Movement ( Jumping Biz )'
Birmingham
JONNY - 'Cave Dance'
Pembrokeshire
BONZO DOG BAND, THE - 'Cool Britannia'
London
